Perception study on leading factors of slip and fall incidents in manufacturing industry

The article reports on a study to establish and identify key components which addressed to slip and fall factors. This paper aimed at determining leading factors of slip-fall incidents and ranked the factors. A survey was done using a sample of 100 manufacturing workers in manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) has been chosen to evaluate the manufacturing workers perceptions in determining slip-fall leading factors at their own workplace. In this analysis, Principle Components Analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation method was used. 25 items for slip-fall factors were identified after EFA where the variables consists i) footwear factor (3 items), ii) contaminant factor (4 items), iii) flooring factor (3 items), iv) cleaning factor (4 items), v) environment factor (4 items), vi) individual factor (4 items) and vii) perception of risk (3 items). All the questions were generated based on manufacturing workers perception on slip-fall factors. This finding is important to further study the influence of these factors to the workers in any other industry or workplace. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.